Change is tonic, right? In those good ol’ days (say, 1996, when my first book was published), publishers arranged the signings and radio interviews. They also sought out reviewers. All a writer had to do was send postcards, make phone calls, walk…
What is a Writer’s Platform? If you think of it as a physical thing, a platform is a raised area, like a stage, which would put someone above the crowd to be viewed by everyone at once. Online, it’s a central point to attract fans and future…
When I started Hometown Reads earlier this year, I hoped to launch 20 locations total in 2016. I also had an idyllic vision of traveling to each of the locations we launched, to meet people in person to fuel the local communities of authors and…